Leila Molana Allen and Renad Mansour join us to discuss Syria and what the fall of the Assad regime might mean for refugees across the globe. Plus, how a school in Norway is protecting Sámi culture and 'The Devil Wears Prada' hits London's West End. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You are listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on 9th December 2024 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing, broadcasting live from Studio one here at Midori House in London.
I'm Chris Chermack.
Coming up on today's program, I cannot.
Imagine we will arrive to this moment.
Do you know what happen now?
The dictator is gone.
Syrians celebrate the fall of the Assad regime as the wider Middle east looks on, wondering whether this is a time for optimism or heralds more volatility.
We'll have the latest on the broader regional reaction from Iran to Lebanon to Turkey.
From there we head to Ukraine where Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Metz has arrived for a surprise visit at a time where his vocal support for Kyiv could be costing him support in federal elections back home.
We'll also get a roundup of theater news ahead of the holidays.
And finally, it's important also that the young people who live here in Kautukenu have a chance to take their education first education here in their local home place.
Petri Birtsov of Monaco is in northern Norway visiting a new school of the region's indigenous Sami population.
All that right here on the briefing with me, Chris Chermack.
This is the briefing and we will start in Syria where the shock fall of the Assad regime in a matter of days has transformed the Middle east and its power balances.
Iran and Russia are weaker.
Turkey emerges stronger.
And everyone else is waiting to see just who will step into the void, what relations with any potential new government might look like and whether they raise or lower the tensions in the wider region.
Well, for the latest on seri, I'm joined by Renad Mansour, research fellow in the Middle east and North Africa program at Chatham House and Layla Milana Allen, Monaco's Middle east correspondent.
Leila, let me start with you.